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There's nothing like a good sentimental tune (especially a few drinks in) - what are some of your favourites? And are they still being made?

― Tom, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first thing that popped into my head was "Shiloh" by Neil Diamond. I like that song. Plus, a jukebox at the Owl Tree in San Francisco, my favorite after work spot, was heavy on the Neil Diamond. So I get sentimental over that one.

― Mark, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if i worked for pitchfork, i'd get drunk and cry to neal diamond every day too.

― ethan, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Meeeow. ;)

There are loads of sentimental tunes being made nowadays, Tom - why do you think Celine Dion has a career? The best stuff for me, though, is loud rock ballads - Motorcycle Emptiness, Born to Run, that sort of rubbish. I don't know if it qualifies as sentimental in the traditional sense but it seems sentimental to me. Then again get me in the right mood and Paradise City is sentimental.

― Ally, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Right mood, or right state of shameless inebriation? ;) Only one rock guy has ever come close to the heart-wrenchingness of a well done jazz ballad. Tom Waits is perfect for this sort of thing. I actually have a small playlist I've been compiling for drunken sappiness. They're acts I mostly don't listen to, but I think this is because Steve Albini has never produced a convincing ballad to my knowledge...

1. Tom Waits - A Little Rain* 2. John Coltrane - Nancy With The Laughing Face 3. Hayden - Bad As They Seem

* I usually pass out before the end of this track.

― Dave M., Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rrichard Harris - Macarthur Park - shit, I bought my stereo because it played that orchestra bit 6 minutes in _just_ right. Sad, I know...

― Geoff, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Almost way too many to cite, but here goeth: "Missing" by Everything But the Girl,

"There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by the Smiths,

"Lucy" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds,

"Pictures of You" by The Cure,

"Come Back & Stay" by :::shudder:::: Paul Young

"Stay" by Shakespeare's Sister

....oooh, I need a drink now.

― alex in nyc, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The song that was playing when I started this thread: "Rainy Night In Soho" by The Pogues.

― Tom, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

These further three suggestions should be enough to get me tarred, feathred and forever banished from the ILM realm (although my unwavering status as a strident Killing Joke fan already warrants said trappings of the social pariah), but as a recovering fan of histrionic shenanigans, I'd also like to cite: "Dazzle & Delight" by Gavin Friday, off EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES

"Wake" by the Mission (the very depth of ultimately empty paeans of melodramatic bombast)

and

"Script for a Jester's Tear" by Marillion.

― alex in nyc, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Atomic - Blondie

― Omar, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shades of Grey by the Monkees. sniff sniff.

― Peter, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The song *I* was playing when I came to this thread: Abba's "Chiquitita".

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Midnight Train to Georgia gets me every time

― Madchen, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thirteen by Big Star. I can still remember the first time I heard it.

― Stevie Nixed, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Sailing By". I think it was written by someone called (honestly) ronald binge. It is the music they play before the british shipping forecast on radio 4 late in the evening. It is just SO beautiful...

Mmmmmmm....

x0x0

― norman (blub) fay, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it was December 1988 that I heard 'The Living Years' (Mike and the Mechanics) in Virgin Megastore (Oxford Street, London) and it really moved me.

― the pinefox, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Hips and Makers" by Kristin Hersch. Every time I hear it, I am transported back to a big, spooky, haunted house that I shared with a commune full of well intentioned tossers and raving lunatics masquerading as socialists.

Which seems strangely nostalgic in retrospect. I knew at the time, I was having a Life Experience, but it was cold and inconvenient and horrid at the time. But now when I hear that album (which we used to gather round the kerosene stove to listen to) it takes me right back there.

With the house lunatic singing "bad clams storm around my house... we have hips and makers..." (and we'd all shake whatever implements we were holding in time with the tambourine) "...we have a good time."

― kate the saint, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Plus

1. 'Moon River' (Mancini)

2. 'Bachelor Kisses' (MacLennan)

3. 'Russians' (Sumner)

4. 'You Are The Dream From Which I Can't Wake Up From / To' (Trousse)

also.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"'You Are The Dream From Which I Can't Wake Up From / To'"

You're messin with my mind, pf!

― Nick, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love "Sailing By", though I hated it from 22nd November 1990 to 2nd May 1997.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find loads of 80's metal ballads really sentimental...like "I Remember You" by Skid Row.

― james e l, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patti Smith "We Three", Soft Cell "Say Hello Wave Goodbye", Kinks "This is Where I Belong, Bowie "Kooks". Can't really think of a 90s one. Maybe the Magnetic Fields "Strange Powers". Though the sentiment doesn't seem quite as heartfelt, it being Stephin Merritt and all. Still a very sweet song.

― Arthur, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like 'Strange Powers' all right, but can't see why it's in any way 'sentimental'. If you want sentimental Merritt, why not 'Abigail' or 'He Didn't'?

― the pinefox, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, there are probably better examples in Merritt's work, but that's the first thing that popped into my head. I do think the song is sentimental, though, at least the first verse and chorus. Not in a mawkish way, just very wide-eyed and romantic. And clever. Maybe it's just a good love song.

― Arthur, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

journey were the kings of sentimental crap like 'faithfully' or 'open arms' or 'don't stop believing' or 'lights' each one, of course, being an all-time classic.

― keith, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Love Song" by Tesla, especially the soaring "Love will find a way!" chorus, and the doot-doo-doos at the end.

― Kris, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

There are so many! Here's a few that can just about bring tears to my eyes. I miss the 80's. Bon Jovi - "Never Say Goodbye" Skid Row - "I Remember You" (This one REALLY gets me!) Scorpions - "Still Loving You"

― Trisha, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Revive, because I think this was interesting thread.

There are many I could choose, but today I would probably pick "Fernando" by Abba.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah nice thread.

something like 'ghosts' by albert ayler.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

Right now my brain is stuck in some forever young phase and I'm stuck with emotionally pubescent songs about unrequited love.

Big Star - Thirteen
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Faces - Ooh La La
Man Man - Gold Teeth

― Moka, Thursday, 7 April 2011 09:19 (fourteen years ago)

saw an amateur porno recently where they had "Maggie May" playing on the radio. It was kinda poignant

― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 April 2011 09:20 (fourteen years ago)

If she was a milf it's definitely kinda poignant. Would fit even better if it was the traditional "maggie may" song.

― Moka, Thursday, 7 April 2011 09:25 (fourteen years ago)

i love this kind of music

the platters-only you
mantovani-colours of my life
frank patterson-danny boy
dusty springfield-i think it's gonna rain today
mercury rev-spiders and flies
ludovico einaudi-reverie
max richter-on the nature of daylight

probably loads more i'm forgetting.

― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:35 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YA5J88ik64

love this too actually...though prob shouldn't.

― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Monday, 11 April 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

I'm a pushover for lost childhood songs:

Dusty Springfield - Goin' Back
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:50 (fourteen years ago)

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